Laura Tunbridge

Laura Tunbridge studied at Oxford and Nottingham before completing her PhD at Princeton University in 2002. She has since taught at Reading and Manchester Universities and is now professor of music at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St. Catherine's College. Tunbridge was editor of the Journal of the RMA and has been awarded grants by the British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, and Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Vol. 2 • No. 3 • 2018

Thoughts on Public Musicology

Richard Taruskin, Laura Tunbridge

Public engagement is something academics increasingly are being encouraged to do by their institutions, be they universities, conservatoires, museums, or scholarly societies. It’s probably a good thing to get people out of their ivory towers but is “public musicology” really …